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Here are a few other interesting recent publications:

• A Complete Guide to the Buddhist Path by Khenchen Konchog Gyaltshen Rinpoche

Tibetan tradition holds that the Buddha provided 84,000 different kinds of teachings to help us avoid suffering.  Based upon a work by famous Drikung Kagyu teacher, Bhande Dharmaradza (1704-54) that is known in English as The Jewel Treasury of Advice, Khenchen Konchog shows how we can apply some of these approaches.  Using down-to-earth contemporary language, he re-interprets the teachings with humor and compassion, as well as an understanding of contemporary Western life.  Those who sincerely want to apply the Buddha's teachings will find this useful.

• The Courage to Feel:  Buddhist Practices for Opening to Others by Rob Preece (Snow Lion Publications, 2009.)

Compassion is the hallmark of a peaceful warrior.  This 14-chapter book will be useful to anyone seeking to examine the link between the quest for Enlightenment and the concern for the well-being of others.  

His explanations can help anyone, Buddhist or not, to understand concepts such as bodhicitta or "the mind of enlightenment" that is the basis for the Mahayana view;  the role of reincarnation in Buddhism and the phrase "all our mother sentient beings," and the benefit of the practice of techniques like tong.len  --  "sending and receiving."

Preece is a London psychotherapist with a Jungian background who is a meditation teacher with decades of experience.  He is also a painter of thangkas.

•  Entrance to the Great Perfection:  A Guide to the Dzogchen Preliminary Practices by Cortland Dahl. All royalties go to further the activity of the most venerable Chatral Rinpoche (currently living in Nepal) in ransoming the lives of animals that otherwise would be killed.

Dahl (recipient of a Master's degree from Nalanda University (USA) and experienced as a translator at Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche's Nitartha Institute), in consultation with the work of masters such as Patrul Rinpoche and Jamgon Kongtrul,  has compiled and clarified texts by Jigme Lingpa, Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, Jigme Trinle Ozer and Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche.  Also included as appendices are instructions on doing a retreat in this tradition, on how to do the visualization, on the 9-yanas and on the literature of the Longchen Nyinthik lineage.